Posted on 07/05/2011 8:27:07 PM PDT by upchuck
Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?
Take the test. 33 questions. It's not easy. Be sure to check out the table at the end of the quiz that shows the incredible spread between the scores of citizens and politicians.
Post your score below.
Enjoy!
Link.
Reagan was 80 the second time he was elected.
But the question was ‘what fiscal policy combination has the federal government most often followed’, not which policies they should follow.
It doesn’t matter whether or not you accept Keynesian policies, they are still the policies that the federal government most often employs, and that’s the question the test posed.
I missed the one on the Puritans (really embarrassing) and the Lincoln-Douglas debates...
But hey...now I know!
President, that is.
96.97% I missed the one about Socrates, Plato etc. After seeing the answer, I knew it, but must have had a brain f*rt earlier taking the test.
Nam Vet
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %
Thought long and thought wrong on 2.
Question: If taxes equal government spending, then:
Your Answer: government debt is zero
Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average
Mathematically both must be true.
tax revenue = spending
divide both sides by population
tax revenue/population = spending/ population
But the @nd equalization assumes all people pay taxes.
Therefore the first equation is righter.
Can anyone provide the link to the results breakdown? I don’t want to take the test again...:)
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %
But I’m old and tired. I’d have gotten them all right when I was young and strong. LOL
But that wouldn’t take into account things that come up requiring immediate money that you haven’t budgeted expenses for...
I got 30 out of 33. 90%
32/33 here.
Here is the one I missed.
Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:
Your Answer: more tax revenue can be generated from free enterprise.
Correct Answer: the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends.
[If you want to be very historically picky, prior to the advent of fiscal or tax policy as stimulus, the Federal government typically attempted both tight and loose monetary policies through the central bank to spur growth. But those historical alternative courses are not offered as answers in any combination, so you have to assume the only "historical" options are those since 1930. Coolidge did nothing -- was his recession "mild?" But in any event, doing nothing is not one of the answers offered, so you cannot make that choice either.]
LOL...if you read Thomas Sowell, he will drill THAT one into your head!
Well my goodness should not you be working? WE must be brother and sister as I, too, scored 30/33 for 91%...but i think two that i missed are open to debate...
I missed one.
But government also has different ways to raise taxes. They can use tax, they can tax income or spending etc.
That question didn’t ask what works best, it asked what policy was most often followed.
I got it right but missed three, at least one of which was subjective—”why is such and such “considered to be” good policy?
I have worked with budgets and “Things that you haven’t budgeted but requiring immediate money for..” should be a budget item.
I made 87%.... I second guessed two of my answers and changed them to incorrect answers! The one about the puritans and for the people by the people I changed from Gettysburg address to constitution! Don’t know why I did that. :(
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